I just want one person, any person, who I know voted for Trump, to express some sadness about his policies, any misgiving at all. That would be great. That would restore some of my faith in this country. I don’t need to hear you say you regret voting for him. Even if you just expressed some concern about ICE tactics, it would be freaking amazing at this point.

It would be particularly great to hear this from people who expressed sadness and outrage over the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Some of my own family members shared Trump’s post about the “great and even legendary” Kirk. But all of you haven’t said a word about Alex Pretti, who is clearly murdered on the streets by federal law enforcement agents. You were silent after Renee Good. But after Pretti? Video of his murder is clearer than videos of Good’s murder. There are more angles. It’s as clear as day. And it’s clearer than ever that Trump, Noem, DHS, Vance, Patel, Bovino, and all the other grovelers are lying to you, me, and everyone else about what happened.

Local journalist, Kyle Clark asked the question, “What if there was no video?”

A critique making the rounds on social media over the weekend reads as follows: Voting for Trump and then conveniently “not keeping up with politics” is pure cowardice. Turn around and look at the disaster you helped usher in. You don’t get to look away.

The reality is, you do get to look away. It’s still a free enough country that you can vote and then not pay attention to the aftermath. It’s a sick way to disregard the policies that your vote helped usher in, but it’s what I see again and again from people who I know voted for Trump. It’s very disturbing. So often we are simply afraid to admit we were wrong about something, ill-informed about a political policy, or whatever it may be. We don’t want to express doubt because we think it will show a weakness, a lack of foresight. We will look dumb. When precisely the opposite will happen. We will be taken seriously. We will show that we have critically thought about the consequences of our actions. We will show the courage to change our beliefs. We will develop a moderate position on something. We will break outside of our insular echo chambers.

We should all challenge and critique our own beliefs and opinions. Sometimes the onus is on democrats. Sometimes it’s on republicans. Sometimes its on all of us. But when it comes to Alex Pretti, there’s just no excuse to justify his killing.

Give us hope. Express some goddamn outrage.